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Chava Rosenfarb’s The Tree of Life,
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
human tastemakers,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
% Derisible • Theses for 2020
Dwayne Z. (“Dizzy”) Cubitts,
Thomas Pynchon • Bleeding Edge
Christopher Lasch: the cult of progress hollowed out memory and responsibility. To place faith in perpetual novelty was to declare war on continuity itself; communities became raw material for technical advance, and the future was bought at the price of forgetting the past. Progress did not liberate but amputated, leaving behind a society of
... See morehe suggests the Yiddish writer who writes in the distinctly Israeli paradigm of Zionist-socialist culture should carry on as if in the diaspora, namely, surround himself with Yiddish books and create a spiritual atmosphere in which Yiddish will not be forgotten. However, in Israel, for the first time, Birshtein wrote of the need to justify his
... See moreLara Rabinovitch • Choosing Yiddish: New Frontiers of Language and Culture
Judaism’s “possibilism” about human nature, its conviction that we can choose the good even if we often don’t.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
a recognizable part of the international non-place.